Reflections Newsletter from Dr. Alex Lees

How Fear Can Affect Our Immune System
By Tom Dorzab

Allergies and sensitivities are such a huge topic that I could talk about them almost forever. If I keep dwelling on this same topic though, I'm afraid I'm going to get a reputation like Uncle John. You remember Uncle John, he's the one who has to show everybody a slide show of all his vacation pictures from the last 10 years every time there is a family gathering. So maybe it's time to shift gears and move on to greener pastures before I put everyone to sleep with all this allergy talk.

The problem is, now we need to find a suitable topic? Is there anything going on health wise that would be of interest to everyone? Let's see, maybe SWINE FLU! While this topic seems to be the subject of many newscasts and newspapers lately, and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are telling us the end of the world is near, the reality of the data indicates that this is one of the mildest flu seasons in recent history. Vaccines and media hype aside, immunity to disease, whether it's flu or any other disease, is a subject that is always important to keep up on. One never knows when a truly dangerous disease will threaten our planet.

In the world of energy medicine, immunity from disease can be enhanced by keeping the various energy systems balanced or strengthened as the case may be. Working with all the various energy systems is a pretty big order. Fortunately, since all the various energy systems are interconnected, and since working with one often affects at least some of the others, it is often possible to have a profound effect on the whole by working with only one system.

In this article I will focus my attention primarily on just one system and will hopefully demonstrate how, by your spending time on this one system, it's possible to gain amazing benefits for many other systems as well.

Many have talked about the polarities of fear and love and how love is health enhancing and fear is health destructive. I'm not sure it's as simple as that, but I can assure you that fear, that is excessive, prolonged and often unfounded fear, can have a devastating effect on your energy systems. The ominous and nearly continuous predictions by WHO and CDC in nearly all news outlets worldwide have no doubt caused a great deal of fear and anxiety. If left unchecked, this fear can result in a variety of problems including a depressed immune system.

First let's outline some of the basic energetic mechanisms involved with fear. In Chinese Medicine fear is related to an out-of-balance Water Element. Remember the Water Element? It's one of the Five Elements that include Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal. The Five Elements are the basis of Chinese Medicine.

The Water Element is further broken down into two meridians. Remember the meridians? They're what acupuncture is based upon. Anyway, the meridians associated with the Water Element are the Kidney Meridian and the Bladder Meridian. When the Water Element is out-of-balance, you can bet you're also having problems with your Kidney and Bladder Meridians. Besides the problems that may be expected when these meridians aren't working at peak performance, such as low back pain associated with the Kidney Meridian and urination problems associated with the Bladder Meridian, a wide variety of other symptoms could also show up. Problems such as losing your hair, eyesight changes or nervousness and anxiety are just a few.

I have had several clients recently that have beautifully illustrated the point I am trying to make. They were pretty much feeling lousy in many different areas. Energetically the tests showed that most or all of their meridians were out-of-balance, all of their chakras were a mess, they had adrenal and thyroid weaknesses and a variety of other energy tests showed they were really in need of a tune up.

Now I could have worked with the meridians individually, cleared the chakras, worked with the thyroid and adrenals and finished up with all the other corrections and they would have probably felt much better after the three hour session. Instead, I chose to work first with the Water Element.

I asked them to think of the issue that was the cause of their greatest fear at the moment and to keep thinking about it. There was no need whatsoever for me to know what that issue was. They were lying face-up. So, while sitting at their head, I placed the palm of one hand on their forehead and the palm of the other on the back of their head with my thumb resting on the occipital ridge at the base of their skull. About twenty minutes later I began to feel a pulsing in one hand. Then I felt it in the other hand. Eventually the pulsing synchronized and I felt the pulsing in both palms at the same time indicating an endpoint.

The results amazed even me! Virtually every test, tests that had previously indicated problems in many different energy systems with virtually any symptom or symptoms possible, now showed the systems to be in harmony! What a powerful tool we all have at our disposal!

I'm not saying that this will happen everytime with everyone. I am saying though that this generalized effect is not the least bit uncommon. Also remember that if left unchecked, your fear can have devastating effects on all of your energy systems including those that enhance or destroy your immune system.

The great thing is, you can actually do this to yourself! If you're caught in fear, just think about that fear, hold the same places I held and wait for the pulses to synchronize. That's all there is to it.

Of all the many things you can do to enhance your immune system, this is probably one of the easiest. Do yourself a favour and add this to your health tool box. You'll be glad you did.

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